BSD Real Quick Newsletter

BSD Real Quick(TM) News Letter.
Things Happening in BSD.
Presented by Daemon News
Hi Everyone,
I have been writing Real Quick newsletters for over two years now.
They actually pre-date Daemon News. They started out as the FreeBSD
Real Quick Newsletter and recently I have been writing four different
newsletters, one for each BSD.
I have decided to take a different approach to the newsletter. Its going
to become more regular, unified, and more personalized. I'll try to take
the best of each week and summarize it here. As always feedback is welcome.
Chris Coleman <chrisc at vmunix.com>
Daemon News O'Reilly Networks -- Open Source Editor
http://www.daemonnews.orghttp://www.oreillynet.com/
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A Sexier BSD: Mac OS X(XX)
September 28, 2000
In these last couple of weeks the online community has been buzzing about
one thing, and it's not the Olympics.
Sure, most of Australia's bandwidth is now taken up by International
tourists checking their email on Sydney's Internet terminals, and the
rest is taken up with the frenzied attempts of would-be-Olympic ticket
holders trying to convince IBM's Olympics e-commerce site that they
are more worthy of getting tickets than anyone else, but that's not all.
It's bigger than the Olympics, it has more colours, more devoted fans
and more people wearing shirts advertisingit. It's a new and improved
UNIX BSD Distribution, and it's poised to take the world by storm.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1223
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BSD System takes on Linux
September 27, 2000
The buzz in operating systems today seems to center on Linux. But there's
another OS generating a lot of interest - BSD. Both Linux and BSD are
growing faster as server systems on the Internet than their competitors,
including Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 2000 combined, according to
Nancy Stewart, senior analyst at Survey.com, an Internet market research
firm that surveys information technology executives on their purchasing
plans. In addition, Linux and FreeBSD, an open-source version of the BSD OS,
are expected to grow 177 percent as Web server systems by the end of
2001, Stewart says, compared with a loss of 7 percent for Windows NT/2000
and a loss of 11.2 percent for proprietary Unix, such as Hewlett-Packard's
HP-UX and Sun Microsystems' Solaris.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1215
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FreeBSD 4.1.1 includes RSA
September 26, 2000
Finally the announcement for FreeBSD 4.1.1 is out. Changes are the
inclusion of the RSA libraries and other security things that were made
possible because of RSA.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1213
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Open Packages Mailing Lists
September 26, 2000
The OpenPackages.org project now has public mailing lists that people can
join. Archives of the op-tech mailing list are also available on line.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1210 LINK:
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Delphi poll
September 25, 2000
There is a poll about to which platforms Delphi should be ported after
Linux.
For those not familiar with Delphi, it is a rapid application development
tool (RAD). Thought by many, including myself, to be one of the best
development tools around.
The Linux port is expected in the coming months.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1208
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From the BSD Support Forum:
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Is there a way to increase the difficulty of TCP Sequence Prediction?
September 27, 2000
I scanned a newly made OpenBSD firewall running ipf, ipnat and all current
patches using nmap. The result were good except that the TCP Sequence
Prediction was only at (worthy challenge) this was a big blow to me as I
anticipated the OpenBSD box would be much better than a local SuSE linux
server that got a better (Good Luck) rating. Myself and another sysadmin
have a friendly rivalry going on with the bsd vs linux debate. This last
scan did not help my cause much. Any ideas on what I could do to increase
the prediction difficulty? Thanks in advance.
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1222
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Plea for help
September 27, 2000
Here's my problem - FreeBSD4.0 runs out of memory and crashes. Currently, I
have one box with FreeBSD, P-2/450 w/256MB RAM. It crashed Monday morning
and was rebooted, a couple hours later it crashed again. It's been up for
1+17:50 now according to top. Free was 135 MB, I tar -cvzf'ed the customer
directories to a backup, now top is showing 23M Active, 186M Inactive, 33M
Wired, 7156K Cache 17M Buf, 1324K Free. Something is drastically wrong
here. The boot message says to look on the errata page for problems/fixes,
but this isn't mentioned at all. Any clues/fixes as to why it doesn't free
up the inactive RAM?
MORE: http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1217
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